The directory

Black-owned businesses in New York

80 listings across 22 towns, in 9 trades. 73 carry a working phone number or website. Every one was checked against public sources, and where a detail could not be confirmed the listing says so.

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Front page of The Colored American, Washington, November 24, 1900
The Colored American, Washington, November 24, 1900

Cities in New York

4

What New York is made of

The rest of New York

23

23 listings sit in 18 towns with too few of them to make a guide of their own. They are here rather than nowhere.

How this page is built. It is the directory filtered to New York — the same records, the same checks. The city guides above cover 57 of these 80 listings; the rest are named here because a town with three businesses in it still has three businesses in it. A business that belongs here and is missing can be added by its owner: claiming a listing is free.

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